For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?
TERTULLIANFor it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.
More Tertullian Quotes
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Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God.
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Learn about the incorruptible King, and know his heroes who never inflict slaughter on the peoples.
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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
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Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
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Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
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The whole fruit is already present in the seed.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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I believe BECAUSE it’s impossible.
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Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
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You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
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Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
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A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.
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The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.
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It is to believed because it is absurd.
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The fact is certain because it is impossible.
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Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God.
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Christians are made, not born.
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Custom without truth is error grown old.
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The first reaction to truth is hatred.
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Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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